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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-09-04 22:39:05 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-09-04 22:39:05 +0000
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Document EAPI 2 support in the unpack helper function for gitweb snapshots.
A patch implementing this feature has been submitted by Daniel Robbins. svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=11494
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@@ -306,6 +306,18 @@ src_compile() {
</tgroup>
</table>
</section>
+ <section id='package-ebuild-eapi-2-draft-helpers-unpack'>
+ <title>unpack</title>
+ <section id='package-ebuild-eapi-2-draft-helpers-unpack-gitweb-snapshots'>
+ <title>Gitweb Snapshots</title>
+ <para>
+ To aid interoperatiblity with gitweb, files with the suffixes of ;sf=tbz2
+ and ;sf=tgz are now treated as .tar.bz2 and .tar.gz archives, respectively.
+ This allows for ebuilds to consume gitweb snapshots and still use the
+ default src_unpack implementation.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
</section>
<section id='package-ebuild-eapi-2-draft-metadata'>
<title>Metadata</title>